Snake

He was this big to Mee.

My mother-in-law spent a few days with us this week. It’s always good to have her around for a few days. She keeps the house and yard tidy, as she must be doing something all the time to keep herself busy. This is really helpful with all the dust we are experiencing.

This morning when she was straightening up the shoe rack by the back door, she discovered a snake coiled up in one of Mee’s shoes. She got a stick and poked at it and it slithered off in the direction of the truck not to be seen again. She assumed it went down into one of the drains.

On the way to drive Mom home, the snake poked up its head from the recess in which the windshield wipers are recessed. Mee sees it first and lets out a scream and starts moving around in her seat. The snake then comes all the way out and starts slithering from one side of the windshield to the other his little tongue daring in and out. He remained this way for about ten minutes until I made a sharp left turn; there he lost his grip and fell off the side of the truck.

When we got to Mom’s house, Mee was afraid to get out of the truck as she though he may have fallen to the running board. I had to go check before she would exit the truck.

After I got back home I checkout out the Internet for Snakes of Thailand but did not see one that looked like this one. He was not very big, about half a meter and he was two shades of green with horizontal strips. One shade was dark green and the other was almost a golden green. Really, sort of pretty.

I suspect he had moved up from were they are filling in the rice paddies to build more homes.